Even as Gov. Jerry Brown called it “good news” with the release of his latest budget figures on Tuesday, it left many who rely on the state for support with a list of complaints over what the governor failed to do.

One such segment, home health care workers and the seniors who are their clients, rallied outside the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Los Angeles, where the governor held an event releasing the latest budgetary figures.

Other groups protested plans to increase funding for the Department of Corrections.

The May revision is an update of the governor’s budget released in January. Its extra $2.4 billion brought in by revenue from personal income taxes allows the governor to pay down $11 billion in debt, fully fund the teachers’ pension system and add $10 billion to the fund from Proposition 98, a voter-approved measure guaranteeing state money for public education.

That’s cold comfort for Louis James, a home health care worker who tends daily to his wife, confined to a wheelchair for the past seven years. He argues the state is putting a cap on the hours he can put in.

“They are telling us we can work only 40 hours a week when its a 24-hour a day job,” James said. “And we are saving the state money by helping keep people out of the hospital.”

With the Social Security payments his wife receives and his pay of $9.55 an hour, James and his wife have been able to hold onto their South Los Angeles house. “If this budget goes through, I don’t see how we will be able to keep it,” he said nervously.

Vanessa Aramayo, director of the California Partnership, said the governor is also ignoring the needs of the state’s 2.2 million children who live in poverty.

“We cannot afford to not reinvest in programs like CalWORKS and subsidized child care,” Aramayo said. “The governor’s decision to not invest in programs that have been proven to produce positive outcomes is shortsighted.

A third group of protesters gathered Tuesday were objecting to the 2.9 percent increase in spending for the Department of Corrections.

“It is unfortunate but not surprising that since the courts granted the governor’s request for an additional two years to come into compliance (on prison overcrowding), he is reducing funding for programs that would safely cut the prison population,” said Debbie Reyes of the California Prison Moratorium Project, which aims to halt construction of penal facilities and instead fund alternatives to incarceration.